Re: [boost] Re: new dir_it

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-02 12:04:03

At 08:49 AM 1/2/2002, jan_langer wrote:

 >why is a win32 version needed at all? msvc understands posix (as its
 >documentation says).

While there may be a bit of POSIX support, Win32 native support is really 
needed for the platform to meet user expectations if nothing else.

 > so i think it would be good if the lib is only
 >adopted to the various defects of this compiler.

While a lot of Boost developers try to accommodate MSVC because it is 
widely used, there isn't any Boost requirement that you do so.  Around 12% 
of the current libraries fail the regression test for VC++ 6.0.  Microsoft 
is shipping 7.0 next month, with fixes for some of 6.0's problems.

--Beman